Specification of neuronal and glial subtypes from human pluripotent stem cells

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 3995-4008

  Liu, Huisheng ^a   Zhang, Su Chun ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug screening; Embryonic stem cells; Induced pluripotent stem cells; Neural stem cells; Patterning; Transcriptional regulation; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELL THERAPY; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DRUG RESEARCH; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FOREBRAIN; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; MESENCEPHALON; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL; NEUROECTODERM; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PATHOGENESIS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; RETINA CELL; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS;

EID: 82255175070     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-011-0770-y     Document Type: Review

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